JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<html>

    <body>
        <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/" id="TestLink">click to see that there is no ajax success callback executed, even if http return status is 200</a>
    </body>    
    
</html>

JavaScript

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    console.log('jquery ready');
    $('#TestLink').live('click', function() {
        console.log('click');
        testLink = $(this);
        targetUrl = testLink.attr('href');
        $.ajax({
            url: targetUrl,
            success: function(data) {
                console.log('ajax success');

            }
       });
       return false;
    });                    
});